"The song birds are the sweetest In Kentucky; The thoroughbreds are the fleetest In Kentucky; Mountains tower proudest, Thunder peals the loudest, The landscape is the grandest — And politics — the damnedest In Kentucky."

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In Kentucky", st. 7. Reprinted from The Lexington Herald (February 12, 1902) in John Wilson Townsend (ed.) Kentucky in American Letters, vol. 1 (Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1913) p. 351. Editor's note: "It has been parodied a thousand times, reproduced in almost every newspaper in English, illustrated, and at least one Kentuckian has heard it chanted by an Englishman in the shadow of the Pyramids in Egypt!